5,000 = NATO - CNN

CNN News: Reports that NATO will add five thousand troops to the Obama thirty thousand surge to Afghanistan. The question will it work folks, the simple answer NO, but the US and NATO has to try, we saw the result of the failure of the Afghan War on the USSR. The terrain of Afghanistan makes any war hard if not impossible, also one has to understand that Afghan culture is not New York or London, the different sectors of Afghanistan come under tribal chiefs and war lords, corruption is the way they show good faith, lot like Chicago politics. Thus the idea that you can change a culture in under 18 months is rubbish. The best that the West can achieve is that Taliban agree not to have Al Qaeda back when they get power and not to support the Taliban of Pakistan. Any idea that you can change Afghanistan is just an illusion, Iraq was a different matter, the people of Iraq at the end of the day had gone through enough terror to want to end the power of Al Qaeda in Iraq, thus they turned against Al Qaeda, the civic society in Iraq is developing, its slow but its growing, in Afghanistan we have a society that has been destroyed by wars and terror. Thus the best the West can hope for is deal with the devil in the shape of the Taliban, if Churchill could do deals with a mass murder in the shape of Stalin, then the West will have to deal with the Taliban.